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This September, NASA will launch a spacecraft on a mission to reach a distant asteroid. Among the key players: Professor Harold Connolly (Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Ph.D. student Jasmine Bayron. Read more

Ph.D. student Lauren Spradlin (Linguistics) was featured in a Washington Post story on her theory of “totesing” — or the way Millennials communicate using truncated words, particularly on Twitter. Read more

Octopuses, long seen as solitary creatures, have been shown to engage in a variety of surprising social behaviors, including “standing tall” and grappling, according to new research co-authored by Distinguished Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith (Philosophy). Read more

Research by the GC’s Luxembourg Income Study Center figures prominently in the 2016 Poverty and Inequality Report, an influential publication released by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality this week. Read more

CNN en Español and the GC’s Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies have announced a partnership to provide exclusive research on Latino voters in America, who could play an instrumental role in electing the next president.Read more

Distinguished Professor Cathy Davidson (English), director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, received the Ernest L. Boyer Award last week in recognition of her contributions to higher education and interdisciplinary study. Read more

The GC’s American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant for a two-week institute this summer on the U.S. Civil War. Read more

In an essay for Salon, Professor Alyson Cole (GC/Queens, Political Science) examines concerns about “victim culture,” why such fears have surfaced now, and how they thwart free speech and political progress. Read more